A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
The Question of Jewish Cultural Continuity
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Paul Buhle, author and social historian, discusses a type of Jewish cultural continuity based on culture and politics rather than on religion or an interest in Israel.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Paul Buhle.
This excerpt is in English.
Paul Buhle was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1944.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.
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The Question of Jewish Cultural Continuity
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Oral History of the American Left
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A Lesson Learned through Interviewing Women Activists of the Left
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Yiddish Literature: It Is All Connected
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Poetry at Labor Strikes
1 minute 34 seconds
Baruch Rivkin's Ideas About Yiddish Sensibility
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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